Novelist Christopher Farnsworth filed a proposed class-action copyright lawsuit against Meta alleging the company used thousands of pirated books, including his own, to train the Llama LLM without permission or compensation. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages and an injunction to halt the alleged infringement. This is one of several litigation fronts by copyright owners (authors, visual artists, music publishers) against major AI companies; defendants have argued fair-use protection, but outcomes remain unsettled and contingent on judicial interpretation of doctrine applied to generative AI training at scale.
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